Passenger-vehicle



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F. B. BROWNELL.

PASSENGER VEHICLE.

No. 247,608. Patented Sept. 27,1881.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcni.

FREDERICK B. BROWNELL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.-

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,608, dated September 2'7, 1881. Application filed April 2, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it .known that I, FREDERICK B. BROWN- EI .L, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Passenger-Vehicles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification. I

My improvement relates to that class of passenger-vehicles which are convertible into summer or winter conveyances, according to the season, and which can be made weatherproof in time of rain when in their summer condition.

My invention consists, first, in providing a sash, or the marginal frame in which the sash is held, with supporting-studs extending from its corners in line with the top and bottom bars of the frame, said studs slidingin grooves in the pillars or stiles at the sides of the window extending up beneath the roof, so that the sash can be raised and lowered, the pillars or stiles having a notch or a series of notches, by which the sash can be held at any elevation by means of the lower studs resting in the notches.

My invention also consists in hanging to the loweredge of ,the sash or sash-frame (as the case may be) a frame or shutter which can be turned upon the hinges by which it is connected to the sash or frame, and its free edge connected to the top of the sash or frame. This shutter is applicable to that class of summer vehicles where the entrances are at the sides between the seats, and the said shutter closes the space between the seats when down.

Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of one half of a vehicle with side entrance to the seats, showing the entrance closed by the sash and shutter, and showing the sash and shutter in their upper position in dotted or broken lines. The edge of the sash and shutter is shown in full lines in their lower position. Fig. 1 is a like view on a larger scale. Fig.

2 is a similar view to that shown in Fig. 1 of a vehicle having closed sides below the windows and the entrances being at the end or ends. The sash is shown in its upper position and in edge view. Fig. 2 is a like view .On a

larger scale. Fig. 3 is a front view of a sash with a central pane of glass and a series of slats at the sides. Fig. 4 is a front view of a sash and shutter as used in the style of vehicle shownin Fig. 1. Fig. 5is afront view of a sash as used in the style of vehicle shownin Fig. 2. Fig. Gis a side view of one of the window stiles or pillars, showing the series of inclined notches for the support of the sash at any height desired. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail of one corner of the sash shown in Fig. 5.

A is the floor of a street-vehicle. B is the end of the same, and G side posts. D are the window stiles or pillars. In the sides of the pillars are grooves 01, and in these grooves work studs 6, projecting from the corners of the sash or sash-frames. The grooves 01 are carried up above the tops of the pillars in the sides of strips or rafters D beneath the roof F of the vehicle. As the sash is raised the upper studs 0 travel up the grooves or channels cl in the strips D, while the lower pair of studs travel up the parts of the grooves 11- in the pillars.

It will be understood that the grooves or channels-(Z can be curved in any direction,and that the sash may be made rigid, as it is supported only on the studs at the four corners, and no part of the edge of the sash proper enters the grooves d.

The convex side of the groove or channel (1 a may have a bead extending beyond the edge of the sash or sash-frame, so as to close the crack between the same and the pillar.

At the side of the channels at are notches d, which receive the studs at thelower part of the sash when it is in its upper position, and hold it in this position, as shown in Fig. 2.

d are notches at the side of the groove 01 (in the pillars) to receive the lower studs and sustain the sash at any elevation desired.

I do not confine myself to any particular form or construction of sash in connection with the studs 0, although I have special features of construction, which are made the subject of a special claim, and which features I will now describe.

E is a marginal frame, from which project the studs e, and into which the central part, E, of the sash (or the sash proper) is fitted. The part E is held in the frame E by buttons 6, or by other suitable fastenings. The object tral pane of glass and with slats at the sides.

This construction of glass and slats is equally applicable to the removable sashes shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

There is a large class ofsnnnncr vehicles in which the entrances are all along; the sides in thespaces between thesents. Inrainy weather, especially when accompanied by wind, the watcr enters through these spaces. To overcome this difiiculty I provide any style of opensided vehicle with sashes E, to whose lower edge is hung a sash or shutter, G", that reaches from the lower edge of the sash. to the floor of the vehicle, as seen in Fig. 1. In this figure the upper position of the sash and shutteris indicated in dotted or broken lines, the free edge of the shutter being; turned up and attached to the upper part of sash E by any suitable fastening, as g.

I claim herein as new andof my invention-- 1. In a passenger-vehicle, the combination, with a sash having horizontal studs in line with the upper and lower bars, of the pillars or stiles D, extending to the roof of the car, and provided with grooves or channels (I and notches (P, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a sash or shutter,

It, supported on studs e, of the shutter Gr,

hinged to the lower side of said sash, for the purpose set forth.

FREDERICK B. BROWNELL. Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, A. S. Pnnrrmnon. 

